Any way to change picture hex data programatically?

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Hello everyone,

Do you guys know any service or way to change the hex data of a picture programmatically?

As we know the social media companies check if uploaded photo was not already used by someone else by this data so has anyone got a solution?

Cheers
 
There's a few image hex editors out online but I believe a good per cent of them are still on beta. It might be worth your time to post on the Hire a Freelancer, if you're so inclined and haven't already. Best of luck on that.
 
The best and cheapest way is to add random pixels on the image, change saturation, and crop a few lines from the sides.

To just change the hash you need to do only one of the mentioned things.
 
The best and cheapest way is to add random pixels on the image, change saturation, and crop a few lines from the sides.

To just change the hash you need to do only one of the mentioned things.
That's what I did to upload 50k videos per day doing nothing to YouTube in 2014. Now they have hard restriction (which I predicted of course).
 
That's what I did to upload 50k videos per day doing nothing to YouTube in 2014. Now they have hard restriction (which I predicted of course).
Yes, with videos its different story.

btw, impressive amounts of uploads, how much did you earn by doing this?
 
Yes, with videos its different story.

btw, impressive amounts of uploads, how much did you earn by doing this?
Earnings ranged from $150 - $300. I didn't have the willing to reinvest my money in aged accounts and do it that way.

I do not know why I was so greedy. Maybe cause I was 14.
 
Hello everyone,

Do you guys know any service or way to change the hex data of a picture programmatically?

As we know the social media companies check if uploaded photo was not already used by someone else by this data so has anyone got a solution?

Cheers
All you'd need to do is add some artificats to the images. You don't want to mess with hex data directly else you run the risk of corrupting the file.

I don't know any api that will let you edit your images programmatically, but that's what you want to do.

Now what level of editing is required will depend on how good the neural networks are in detecting the same images but I believe adding a crop, some lighting and opacity changes should do the trick.
 
There's a few image hex editors out online but I believe a good per cent of them are still on beta. It might be worth your time to post on the Hire a Freelancer, if you're so inclined and haven't already. Best of luck on that.
I have actually written a software myself for it but I am not sure if it is sufficient.

Here is my approach

C#:
var randomString = Common.Utilities.Random.RandomString(5000, 10000);
var randomStringBytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(randomString);
stream.Write(randomStringBytes, 0, randomStringBytes.Length);

The problem with this approach is that it only appends new bytes at the end of the file so at the beginning is always the same.

Thats why I am not sure if it is enough. The good part of it is that this does not change the photo in any way so its stays as original but the file size changes.

What do you guys think?
 
And just for reference just checked one photo after such modifications and it's size went from 42 to 57kb
 
I have actually written a software myself for it but I am not sure if it is sufficient.

Here is my approach

C#:
var randomString = Common.Utilities.Random.RandomString(5000, 10000);
var randomStringBytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(randomString);
stream.Write(randomStringBytes, 0, randomStringBytes.Length);

The problem with this approach is that it only appends new bytes at the end of the file so at the beginning is always the same.

Thats why I am not sure if it is enough. The good part of it is that this does not change the photo in any way so its stays as original but the file size changes.

What do you guys think?
Looks to be a good start to me. Hopefully we can get some insight from our more code savvy users, although I imagine you'll need to grease the gears a bit for more technical advice.
 

lucky.sparks mentioned good method it works in most of cases.​

Yea but this is a manual approach, the question states "programmatically" so either I am missing something or this approach is manual and doesn't answer the actual question :P
 
Don't know what hex of image is but if you are trying to make your profile pictures appear unique, you could batch process them to remove / change their background. https://www.remove.bg/
and https://www.designify.com both provide APIs to achieve this.
 
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